First human case of flesh-eating screwworm parasite detected in the U.S.
www.nbcnews.com
The parasite — the larva of the new world screwworm fly — can devastate cattle herds and is rife in parts of Central America.
  • Treczoks@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Screwworms eating people? Nothing that horse dewormer or lethal doses of vitamin A can’t fix.

    Oh, it goes after the livestock? Now they suddenly need real science to fix that!

  • MelonYellow@lemmy.caEnglish
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    8 months ago

    The case, involving a person who had recently traveled to El Salvador,

    “The risk to public health in the United States from this introduction is very low,” [HHS spokesperson Emily G. Hilliard] said.

    U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins traveled to Texas to announce a five-part plan to combat the screwworm on Aug. 15

    This includes plans to breed billions of sterile flies and dump them from the air over southern Texas and Mexico in the hope of stopping the parasite’s spread.

    A report from the USDA last year estimated an outbreak of screwworm could cost Texas at least $1.8 billion due to livestock deaths, labor costs and medication.

    • Ghyste@sh.itjust.works
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      8 months ago

      The case, involving a person who had recently traveled to El Salvador

      So ICE brought screw worms to the US. Great.

    • YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      8 months ago

      If only we had a program of releasing billions of sterile males in a very narrow strip of land to keep them from coming up here. Oh we did? Trump axed it? Not surprising.

  • RustyShackleford@literature.cafeEnglish
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    8 months ago

    I knew the worm in RFK’s brain didn’t die but secretly took control of his body. He’s looking to catch humanity off guard for a major assault from flesh-eating screw worms.

      • SereneSadie@lemmy.myserv.one
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        8 months ago

        Does this mean RFK is going to be spontaneously replaced by a younger man in a wig whenever a punch is thrown?

        And who gets to have their skin and muscle burned off so the ribcage and such is showing?

        TNG S1 was wild.

  • bassad@jlai.lu
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    8 months ago

    There was an article here few weeks ago about how an US governmental agency (I don’t remember which) made screwworm disappear from US decades ago, then Mexico, and managed to contain it to few pockets in central america, and now, just few months after fund cuts from the new government the invasion is spreading very fast and reaching US…

    Who could have prevented it ?

    edit : https://jlai.lu/post/24776872/16388491 found an other source